Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
Family Claims Police Abuse
Allegations of police brutality in Shreveport could bring about an internal affairs investigation. "This is where the fight happened right here, " demonstrated Brenda Johnson. She showed us the Shreveport home in the 15-hundred block of Clanton Street , where a police officer fought with three men last Saturday. "I'm not saying they, (the three men), didn't fight with him (officer) because they did. He fell back into this bathroom."
Johnson says the officer was able to regain the upper hand and taser her nephew, 22-
ear old Darnell Johnson, but says the officer was unable to use the taser again. "So, he took his elbow and hit him in his nose and mouth so he could bleed."
Brenda and Da
rnell Johnson along with his girlfriend, Quinita Williams were all sent to jail, charg
ed with battery of an officer and interfering with a police investigation.
According to the report, police had originally arrived on the scene for an aggravated assault, a fight between cousins in which a knife was involved. But Brenda Johnson claims one officer handled her daughter very rough and then headed inside the house as part of the investigation.
As to why the officer was assaulted, Johnson told News 12, "when you fighting in that house in there and you ain't no member of that house, you're fixing to get whooped. And he knew that when he went up in there without his partner."
Police are not releasing the full narrative of either
report, saying they could be part of a potential investigation. But, according to the folks that live here and also come here, the fight did not end altogether on Saturday. They say police have
been back here every night since then. In fact, they say, in one episode that just happened on Wednesday night, they say tha
t police came and attacked one of the people arrested recently.
"They said, 'oh, you're the one who likes to beat up cops, huh. And they just started hitting him and hitting him and hitting him," exclaimed Quinita Williams. She says it was her boyfriend, Darnell Johnson under attack, but that it was different officers than the previous confrontation over the weekend.
Williams continued, "you couldn't hear nothing but him crying and yelling. That's all you heard was him yelling because they were stomping and beating him so hard." The narrative for that police report only stated a black male was arrested for two city warrants,
resisting and threatening a public official.
"I can't comment as far as the actual coming back to the house. I do know that officers frequent that a
rea, that particular area because of the crime rate in that area," explained Shreveport Police Sgt. Jim Taliaferro.
When Brenda Johnson tried to file an internal affairs com
plaint, she was interviewed, then sent home with an affidavit to fill out. Sgt. Taliaferro says if and when Johnson returns with that completed affidavit, internal affairs can begin a thorough investigation.
As for such investigations, Taliaferro told us, "the mere mention of internal affairs indicates wrongdoing by police. And we want the public to understand that the internal affairs division is our check and balance system."
Taliaferro also points out the situation in the neighborhood likely dictated more police presence. "If you have an officer who's been assaulted in any area throu
ghout the city, then other officers are going to be on guard."
Brenda Johnson now has one month to complete that formal complaint. As for Darnell Johnson, he remains behind bars. An
d, LSU Hospital confirms that a person matching his name was treated and then released on Thursday. But because of patient confidentiality rules, they cannot tell us anything about the injuries they treated.
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Looks like this mammy could use some comeuppance as well!
T.N.B.
Allegations of police brutality in Shreveport could bring about an internal affairs investigation. "This is where the fight happened right here, " demonstrated Brenda Johnson. She showed us the Shreveport home in the 15-hundred block of Clanton Street , where a police officer fought with three men last Saturday. "I'm not saying they, (the three men), didn't fight with him (officer) because they did. He fell back into this bathroom."
Johnson says the officer was able to regain the upper hand and taser her nephew, 22-
ear old Darnell Johnson, but says the officer was unable to use the taser again. "So, he took his elbow and hit him in his nose and mouth so he could bleed."
Brenda and Da
rnell Johnson along with his girlfriend, Quinita Williams were all sent to jail, charg
ed with battery of an officer and interfering with a police investigation.
According to the report, police had originally arrived on the scene for an aggravated assault, a fight between cousins in which a knife was involved. But Brenda Johnson claims one officer handled her daughter very rough and then headed inside the house as part of the investigation.
As to why the officer was assaulted, Johnson told News 12, "when you fighting in that house in there and you ain't no member of that house, you're fixing to get whooped. And he knew that when he went up in there without his partner."
Police are not releasing the full narrative of either
report, saying they could be part of a potential investigation. But, according to the folks that live here and also come here, the fight did not end altogether on Saturday. They say police have
been back here every night since then. In fact, they say, in one episode that just happened on Wednesday night, they say tha
t police came and attacked one of the people arrested recently.
"They said, 'oh, you're the one who likes to beat up cops, huh. And they just started hitting him and hitting him and hitting him," exclaimed Quinita Williams. She says it was her boyfriend, Darnell Johnson under attack, but that it was different officers than the previous confrontation over the weekend.
Williams continued, "you couldn't hear nothing but him crying and yelling. That's all you heard was him yelling because they were stomping and beating him so hard." The narrative for that police report only stated a black male was arrested for two city warrants,
resisting and threatening a public official.
"I can't comment as far as the actual coming back to the house. I do know that officers frequent that a
rea, that particular area because of the crime rate in that area," explained Shreveport Police Sgt. Jim Taliaferro.
When Brenda Johnson tried to file an internal affairs com
plaint, she was interviewed, then sent home with an affidavit to fill out. Sgt. Taliaferro says if and when Johnson returns with that completed affidavit, internal affairs can begin a thorough investigation.
As for such investigations, Taliaferro told us, "the mere mention of internal affairs indicates wrongdoing by police. And we want the public to understand that the internal affairs division is our check and balance system."
Taliaferro also points out the situation in the neighborhood likely dictated more police presence. "If you have an officer who's been assaulted in any area throu
ghout the city, then other officers are going to be on guard."
Brenda Johnson now has one month to complete that formal complaint. As for Darnell Johnson, he remains behind bars. An
d, LSU Hospital confirms that a person matching his name was treated and then released on Thursday. But because of patient confidentiality rules, they cannot tell us anything about the injuries they treated.
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Looks like this mammy could use some comeuppance as well!
T.N.B.